What century is this? The aggressive anti-contraception GOP stance makes me wonder whether I bought the wrong calendar.<\/p>\n
Rick Santorum, a man who’s dangerously close to snatching the Republican presidential nomination away from Mitt Romney, apparently wants to preside over an antediluvian America: Here’s Santorum<\/a> explaining why he wants to fight “the dangers of contraception:”<\/p>\n It’s not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And Rick is far from the only bedroom-obsessed Republican. GOP over-reach<\/a> regarding contraception is approaching epic proportions:<\/p>\n Last week, Freshman Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) filed legislation to allow any employer, religiously affiliated or not, to refuse to cover any essential or preventive health service, not just contraceptives, based on the “religious belief or moral conviction” of the employer. Word from DC is that Blunt and allies will attempt to add the provision as an amendment to other legislation now moving through the Senate….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The fact that American voters are overwhelmingly pro-birth control<\/a> is apparently irrelevant to Republican politicians.<\/a><\/p>\n Perhaps a limerick might help Republican pols get the message:<\/p>\n Dear Bedroom-Invading Republicans (Limerick) Dear Republican pols, please abstain What century is this? The aggressive anti-contraception GOP stance makes me wonder whether I bought the wrong calendar. Rick Santorum, a man who’s dangerously close to snatching the Republican presidential nomination away from Mitt Romney, apparently wants to preside over an antediluvian America: Here’s Santorum explaining why he wants to fight “the dangers of contraception:” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1820,72,15,25,1754,21,121,20,52,556,6,7,3,152,9,1221,1817],"tags":[1755,2786,2909,194,1109,839,375,1807,1250,1053,702,2877,1818,1208,1819],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-rights","category-birth-control-humor","category-campaign-humor","category-congress","category-constitution-humor","category-contraception-humor","category-election-satire","category-feminism-humor","category-gop-humor","category-health-satire","category-insurance-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-religious-satire","category-republicans","category-rick-santorum","category-roy-blunt-humor","tag-birth-control-limerick","tag-campaign-humor","tag-contraception-humor","tag-election-humor","tag-employers","tag-feminist-limerick","tag-health-care","tag-missouri","tag-mitt-romney","tag-religion-humor","tag-republicans-humor","tag-rick-santorum","tag-roy-blunt","tag-sexist-humor","tag-small-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nFrom ent’ring my bedroom domain.
\nAnd also stay out
\nOf my bathroom. Don’t pout!
\nIf you’re truly “small gov,” you’ll refrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"